As a test, I did the knoppix poor mans install on another box and it works. This install does not seem to have 3-d acceleration. No compiz fuzion at startup, no exploding windows when closed out. This box has the nvidia geforce 5200 card. Is a manual install of the nvidia driver necessary? I looked up md5 checksum in wikipedia. Is there another reference on its usage? Also, I did not use bit torrent. I always relied on the http or ftp download method.